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Book Talk: Governing Habits: Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic by Eugene Raikhel

Please join us for the fifth event of our Work of Care in Russia speaker series, a book talk by Eugene Raikhel, author of Governing Habits: Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic (Cornell University Press, 2016). Moderated by Svetlana Borodina. Critics of narcology—as addiction medicine is called in Russia—decry it as being “backward,” hopelessly behind contemporary global medical practices in relation to addiction and substance abuse, and…

Elements of Border and Infrastructure: Water II

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Please join the Hagop Kevorkian Center for another installment of our series "Elements of Border and Infrastructure." This event will be on the theme of "Water" and will feature a conversation with Jatin Dua (Michigan), Laleh Khalili (Queen Mary Univ. of London), and Nathalie Peutz (NYU-Abu Dhabi) moderated by journalist and Kevorkian Center Visiting Scholar, Atossa Abrahamian (The Nation). This…

Discourses and Likes: Emancipation Going Viral

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Thomas Mann House Los Angeles and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a conversation on “Discourses and Likes: Emancipation Going Viral” between Fatma Aydemir and Mohamed Amjahid, which will be moderated by Ulrich Baer (NYU). In the last couple of years, queer-feminist, antiracist, and emancipatory discourses have become increasingly visible, both in the United States and in the German and European…

“ONE IMAGE, TWO ACTS”: A Film Screening and Discussion with Sanaz Sohrabi

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“One Image, Two Acts” unravels the multifaceted systems of oil infrastructures spanned across unlikely geographies and material temporalities. Examining the photographic and film archives of British Petroleum (BP) during its operations in Iran, Iraq, and Kuwait, this film traces the visual and media infrastructures through which oil has operated as an agent of power in the colonial episteme. It unpacks…

Book Panel: Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies

Please join us for the launch of the new volume Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies (Indiana University Press, March 2022). Editors Alan Barenberg and Emily Johnson will be joined by contributors Gavin Slade (Nazarbayev University), Mikhail Nakonechnyi (University of Helsinki), and Sarah Young (University College London), discussant Dan Healey (University of Oxford), and moderator Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University). The Soviet Gulag was one of the largest, most complex, and deadliest systems of incarceration in the…

Nordic Literature in Translation: What Good Does it Do for a Person to Wake Up One Morning This Side of the New Millennium

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On February 26, join us for a Nordic Literature in Translation event with this year’s American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prizewinner, Randi Ward, and the author of the work in translation, Kim Simonsen! Now in its 43rd year, ASF’s Annual Translation Competition awards prizes for outstanding translations of poetry, fiction, drama, or literary prose written by a 20th- or 21st-century Nordic author. In…

Understanding World Christianity: Russia

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In this talk, Professor Scott Kenworthy will discuss his new book (co-authored with Alexander Agadjanian), Understanding World Christianity: Russia (Fortress Press, 2021), with NYU Professor Yanni Kotsonis.  The Russian Orthodox Church is currently playing a very prominent role in Russian society and politics, and it is not possible to fully understand Russia today without it. The current role of Russian Orthodoxy is…

Translation or Adaptation? Book Talk with Panel

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Join us for a book talk on March 1 with Icelandic author Auður Jónsdóttir, translator Meg Matich, director Tinna Hrafnsdóttir and moderator Esther Allen on the new novel Quake, out on February 8 from Dottir Press! This event will take place at Scandinavia House at 7:30 PM ET and will also be live-streamed to virtual audiences. Nominated for the Icelandic…

Ukrainian Studies Under Attack

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In his speech on February 22, 2022, Vladimir Putin claimed that Ukraine is a fake state created by Bolshevik Russia. His revisionist historical narrative is not only an attempt to justify an unjust war against the sovereign country of Ukraine, but also a direct attack on Ukrainian Studies as a discipline. This round table offers a decisive scholarly intervention in…

Professor Brodsky: Poetica Ex Cathedra

Hybrid 1219 International Affairs Building, New York, United States

Please join us for a presentation by author and literary historian Maya Kucherskaya, a Visiting Scholar at the Harriman Institute, moderated by Mark Lipovetksy (Slavic Department). Literary historian Maya Kucherskaya presents her work on the creative assignments Joseph Brodsky gave to his students at Mount Holyoke College as a part of his poetry course. Drawing on archival documents from Yale University’s Beinecke Library,…